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Reader Mail
Nov 2, 2018

A long way from full acceptance

Regarding the Oct. 8 article "Gaijin Day: How an event in Hamamatsu about unity proved to be divisive": I lived in Japan for more than 30 years and worked in a Japanese-owned company there as well as working in several universities. I finally left Japan because I found the "quiet" discrimination there...
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 2, 2018

After big loss, Panasonic president says firm close to profit at joint factory with Tesla

Panasonic Corp. is on the verge of turning a profit at the giant U.S. battery factory it operates with Tesla Inc., finally yielding returns for a company that has shelled out billions to make power cells for Elon Musk.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Nov 2, 2018

U.N. agencies' report says hundreds of millions of adults, children in Asia's booming cities are undernourished

Hundreds of millions of children and adults in Asia's rapidly expanding cities are undernourished, and will remain so without "inclusive, sustainable and nutrition-sensitive" urban planning, United Nations officials said Friday.
Japan Times
LIFE / EVENTS AND INFORMATION
Nov 1, 2018

Tribute to Toko Shinoda

The Tolman Collection Gallery's tribute to Toko Shinoda is being held at Zojoji Temple, in Tokyo's Minato Ward, until Nov. 11.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 1, 2018

The green lobby's misdirected anger

We can combat climate change only if we use our greatest natural resource: human ingenuity.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Nov 1, 2018

Click-on bionic arm could help amputees

Edmund Rath, a 53-year-old from Austria, wants to do simple things such as brush his teeth and slice bread.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Nov 1, 2018

Having collected 'enough' data, online retailer Zozo ditches namesake body-measuring suit

Online clothing retailer Zozo Inc. is scrapping its body-measuring Zozosuit, saying that it now has enough data to produce custom-size clothes for customers without creating 3D models.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Nov 1, 2018

Trump contends U.S. Constitution does not cover birthright citizenship, despite 14th Amendment

President Donald Trump said on Wednesday the U.S. Constitution does not guarantee the right to citizenship to everyone born in the country, an assertion that runs counter to the long-established legal interpretation of the document.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Nov 1, 2018

U.S. Supreme Court split on Google privacy settlement in class action suits

U.S. Supreme Court justices, in an internet privacy case involving Google, disagreed on Wednesday over whether to rein in a form of settlement in class action lawsuits that awards money to charities and other third parties instead of to people affected by the alleged wrongdoing.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 31, 2018

Japan's Mitsubishi UFJ buys up Commonwealth Bank of Australia's asset arm for $2.9 billion

The upheaval in Australia's scandal-tainted banking industry has handed Japan's largest banking group a long-awaited opportunity to get a bigger foothold in the global asset management industry.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Oct 31, 2018

North Korea preparing nuclear test site for international inspectors: report

North Korea may be preparing for a visit by international inspectors to its shuttered Punggye-ri nuclear test site, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported Wednesday, citing the country's spy agency.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Oct 31, 2018

Kate Sikora carves out a space in Tokyo's indie scene

Kate Sikora is an odd sort of import.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Oct 31, 2018

Amazon dealt $250 billion blow from market jitters and earnings confusion

Fears of a prolonged market downturn, slowing international sales, stepped-up competition in the U.S. and flat-out confusion about how Amazon.com Inc. makes money are all reasons behind the company's dizzying 25 percent drop in value from its September high.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Oct 30, 2018

The ghosts that have been haunting cinema-goers in Japan for over a century

Twenty years ago, people packed theaters to watch a couple of Japanese teenagers view a strange videotape and soon after receive an ominous phone call with a cryptic message: "Seven days."
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Oct 30, 2018

Fiancee says Riyadh behind Jamal Khashoggi's murder, slams Trump response

The fiancee of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi has said Saudi authorities are responsible for his murder, and the kingdom should give more details so that those who ordered and carried out the killing can be brought to justice.
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 29, 2018

Abe grilled at Diet on new visa statuses and upcoming tax hike

The prime minister was also questioned about moves to amend the postwar Constitution.
Japan Times
LIFE / Language / BILINGUAL
Oct 29, 2018

'Ghost kanji' lurk in the Japanese lexicon

Floating around the murky regions of digitized Unicode values are anywhere between 60 and 100 yu016brei-moji — literally, 'ghost characters' — haunting the Japanese kanji lexicon.
LIFE / Language / WELL SAID
Oct 29, 2018

Do this, don't do that: The imperative and prohibitive in Japanese

Mata aō. Tokidoki renraku shiro yo. (Let's meet again. Keep in touch from time to time.)
Japan Times
LIFE / Language / MORNING ENGLISH
Oct 29, 2018

Let's discuss Baku, Osaka's World Expo rival

With a month to go until the host of the 2025 World Expo is selected, Osaka officials are casting a nervous eye toward Baku.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 29, 2018

Trump's tapped smartphone mirrors his foreign policy

China is smart to try to influence those who influence the impulsive U.S. president.
JAPAN
Oct 29, 2018

Government planning seasonal limits on new five-year residence status for foreign workers in Japan: sources

The step will be in response to requests mainly from the agriculture industry, the sources said.
The Toyota buyout is a major test for Japan’s reforms
Akio Toyoda, chairman of Toyota Motor, speaks during a media preview at the Japan Mobility Show in Tokyo on Oct. 29. Minority investors are challenging the carmaker's bid to take affiliate Toyota Industries Corp. private.
New satellite images suggest 'mass graves' in Sudan's El-Fasher
A general view of a berm construction in Kinin Village near El-Fasher.
From France to Mali, a deportee's struggle far from home
Moussa Sacko, a Malian deported from France — where he had lived since he was a young child — stands on a street in Bamako, Mali, in December. Compared with his home in France, Bamako feels like a different planet, Sacko said.
High-speed rail is expensive and difficult, but seen as a key to growth
Achal Khare, former managing director at India’s National High Speed Rail Corporation, gives a presentation during the IHRA Forum 2025 in Tokyo on Oct. 23.
Takaichi calls for the updating of Japan's economic security law
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi speaks to a panel on promoting economic security in Japan on Friday.
Jon Homewood: ‘There’s beauty in what we throw away’
After a peripatetic childhood around the world, teacher and artist Jon Homewood ended up coming to Japan in 2012 for a professional opportunity.
Yokozuna duo Onosato and Hoshoryu poised for another clash of titans
Yokozuna duo Onosato (right) and Hoshoryu clash for the title on the final day of the Autumn Grand Sumo Tournament on Sept. 28 at Ryogoku Kokugikan.
High-speed rail is expensive and difficult, but seen as a key to growth
Achal Khare, former managing director at India’s National High Speed Rail Corporation, gives a presentation during the IHRA Forum 2025 in Tokyo on Oct. 23.
A 40-year wait for ‘Mishima’ ends at TIFF
Made at a time when Japan was still grappling with Yukio Mishima’s legacy, Paul Schrader’s biopic “Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters” was blocked from screening in the country for decades.
Takaichi’s balancing act: Supporting Taiwan and stabilizing China ties
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi shakes hands with Lin Hsin-i, Taiwan’s presidential adviser, on the sidelines of an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit meeting in Gyeongju, South Korea, on Saturday in this image posted to Takaichi's official X account.

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